ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT- 1942

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT - 1942

Caught this little gem on TCM one night, at first I thought it was some generic screwball comedy from the 1940's. I tuned in the scene where Phil Silvers playing a waiter at a diner was about to serve Cheesecake to a customer, turns out the costumer was Humphrey Bogart, that peaked my interest; Bogart and Phil Silvers together in a movie?

I was delighted to see that was only the beginning of a series of familiar faces to me; later Peter Lorre came on the screen, followed by William Demurest, a very young Jackie Gleason and Judith Anderson (The evil maid Mrs. Danvers from Hitchcock's "Rebbecca").



In "All Through The Night" Bogart plays Gloves Donahue; a lovable neighborhood gangster. Glove loves his mother and he treated everyone in his old neighborhood like family; that's how the trouble starts for our hero. Mr. Miller a family friend and owner of Gloves favorite bakery has disappeared. Gloves mother frantically calls Gloves and his friend to help locate the missing gentleman.

Mr. Miller was found murdered in the basement to his shop. Then a mysterious show girl, Leda Hamiltion (Kaaren Verne) came looking for the dead man. That peaked Gloves' interest and triggering a series of incidents that result in Gloves getting framed for the murder of a rival gangster!



Everyone talked like "The Stooges" in this movie; a bunch of wiseguys, also performing the same kind of slap stick comedy but not with out some good o fashion fist fights and shoot outs that Bogart is famous for.



All this leads to the actual bad guys in the story; The Nazis! This is wonderful! I love the good old days where we all had one common enemy The Nazis, there are no political correctness or liberals to stand up for The Nazis, everyone hated them and know they are against democracy, even the mobsters.